DexterPOSH's Blog

Well the title is interesting enough, right ? I saw some interesting comments when I posted the below pic around the release of Server 2016 TP3 in our PowerShell FB group: In this post, I try to tell how I use this simple trick in my everyday use.

Today I saw a tweet about using implicit remoting to load the Configuration Manager on my machine by Justin Mathews . It caught my eye as I have never really tried it, but theoretically it can be done. Note - The second tweet says "Cannot find a provider with the name CMSite", resolution to which is in the Troubleshooting section at the end.

My recent dive into the Mobile Device & Email Management space has presented me with an opportunity to learn Exchange & Office 365. I have built up an Azure VM running Server 2008 R2 with Exchange 2010 Server on it. It didn't made a whole lot of sense to connect to the machine using RDP and then running cmdlets on Exchange Management Shell. Well I must admit that I tried opening a normal PSSession and importing the Exchange cmdlets in there but that didn't work as the Microsoft.Exchange endpoint configuration is hosted on IIS. So here are the steps I followed to get the Exchange cmldets via Implicit Remoting, this is very similar to what we do with Office 365. This is a beginner post as am still wrapping my head around Exchange ;) Open the endpoint on the cloud service to allow the HTTPS traffic to your Exchange Server. Here is how the endpoints appear for my Exchange box. Note that the Public and Private port are both 443 which means when I try reach my c...